Hat and garment holder



R. L. ASH,

HAT AND GARMENT HOLDER. APPLICATZOH FILED AUG.I3, 3919 1,336,408. Pateiri ed Apr: 13, mm

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HAT AND GARMENT HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.I3, 1919.

Patanted. Apr. 13, 1920.

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INVENTOR tJ'NiTED sraras rn'rnrrr orinion.

RICHARD L. ASH, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD TO LEVIIS GIBSON AND ONE-TRIBE TO MURRAY, BQTH OF PHILADELPHIA,

PENNSYLVANIA.

HAT AND GARMENT HOLDER.

Application filed August 13, 1918.

To all uvtont it may concern:

Be it known that T, RICHARD Lnvi Asn, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hat and Garment Holders, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of thi specification,

My invention consists of an improved hat and garment holder in which means are pro vided to support a hat and another means to support a coat or garment, with a single means movable into detachable engagement with both of said supporting means, and with means to lock said engaging elements; the said elements being appropriately combined and operatively mounted on a wooden or metallic or other supporting frame adapted to be hung on or otherwise secured to a wall. The device finds its special utility in hotel lobbies, restaurants, barber shops and other public places, where the owner of the hat and garment desiring, to temporarily remove them and hang them, may feel a degree of safety in so doing that they will not be removed in mistake or otherwise, by persons not entitled thereto.

In the drawings illustrating my invention, Figure 1 is a front elevation of an embodiment of the constructive. and operative principles of my new device, Fig. 2 a side view thereof with the movable parts in open position, and Fig. 3 a like View with said elements in engaged position, and showing the operation thereof, including a snap lock therefor.

In said drawing the numeral 1 indicates a narrow board or other supporting frame, with cross pieces 2, 2, whereby it may be attached to a wall by any known means. Secured centrally on the frame, preferably through the interposition of a thin stiffening plate 3*, is an open hat-supporting wire frame 3, of a suitable outline shape, on which a hat, as indicated at 4 may be supportingly placed.

Means to hold the hat in place on this frame consists of a rod 6, such as a double strand wire rod which is bent as at 6, 6 and both strands of which are separated at a part to form an opening 6 near its grasping end which is also so bent at 6 for another pur- Specification of Letters Patent.

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pose hereinafter stated; and it is provided in like manner with a larger and central opening 6. The grasping end of the rod 6 becomes the lower terminal end thereof when brought into position to engage, by its opening 6, with the projecting end 7 of a bracket fixed on the frame 1; while the central opening 6, in the rod, passes over the crown of the hat, on the frame 3, and holds it thereon. The hub end of the rod 6 is pivoted to a bracket 8 and is provided with a spring 9 secured at its other end to the frame 1, or to the stiffening plate 3 thereon if used. The tendency of the spring 9 is to normally keep the rod 6 lifted to the position shown in Fig. 1 when its grasping and locking end 6, 6 is released from engagement with the aforesaid projecting end 7 of the bracket. The bracket 10 has an end l0 bent at right angles to its body portion and is secured thereby, fixedly, to the frame 1; and has another and opposite end bent to form the aforesaid projection 7. It has also a lower end which is bent to form an upturned hook 10 and about centrally of its vertical length its body portion is thickened to provide a bearing 10 for a device pivoted thereon, which said device consists of a member, one end 11 of which is adapted, by an opening therein, to pass over the projection 7, when moved manually on its pivot, and as shown may consist of and be provided with a snap lock 11; while the other end of this member is formed, or bent if made of wire, with a double curve to form the part 12 which, when said member is moved on its pivotal bearing passes alongside of and in the same plane with the hook member 10 of the fixed bracket 10. The operation of the device is apparent from a comparison of the two Figs. 1 and 2, the former showing the parts in position to receive a hat on the part 3 and a garment on the hook 10 then a lowering of the rod 6 causes its opening 6 to pass over the hat on the frame 3, and its opening 6 to pass over the bracket projection 7 and a final manual movement of the pivoted member 11, causes its hook 12 to assume the position shown in Fig. 2, relatively to the hook 10 on which the garment is hung, while, the same movement causes the snap hook to engage said projection 7 and lock all the parts.

A numbered key may be provided which, like a coat check, each customer may temporarily remove and hold.

I claim as new and of my invention:

1. A garment-supporting holder, comprising in combination a supporting frame, a bracket fixed to said frame and having a depending member terminating in an upturned hook adapted to hang a garment thereon and a transversely disposed member operating as an engaging projection, a depending lever pivoted at its upper end on said frame and -having a slotted free end adapted to be brought thereby into engagement with said bracket projection, a locking member centrally pivoted on said fixed bracket and provided with a clown-turned hook portion adapted to be rotatably brought into coincidence with said upturned garment-supporting hook, and having another part adapted, by the same rotative movement, to be brought into engagement with said bracket projection when said slotted lever is moved into locking position, and means to detachably lock together said last mentioned engaging elements.

2. A combined hat and garment holder comprising in combination a supporting frame, means to support a hat thereon, a bracket fixed to said frame and having a depending end terminating in an upturned hook operating as a garment support and a transversely-disposed end operating as an engagingprojection, a depending lever pivoted at its upper end on said frame and having its free end slotted to pass over and engage said bracket projection, and having an intermediate opening adapted to be brought into a position over said hat-supporting means, said pivoted lever being normally held in inoperative position by resilient means, and a manually movable locking 'member pivoted on said bracket and pr0- vided with a part adapted to be brought into coincidence with said upturned garment,

fixed my signature this 12th day of August A. D. 1919.

RICHARD L. ASH. WVitness:

HARRY A. GREAR. 

